No worries. I know all about papal infallibility and there are no “layers”.
et; (may we call you ET?)
No layers?
Too funny.
Just look at all the shadings in the links I provided, paying attention to the over-wrapping "layer" in the Vatican link, then consider the little mini lecture I received in the comment immediately below you own...which begins with the view that I am conflating authority and infallibility-- as if there is no overlap to those?
Who's to say where 'conflating' begins...when the descriptions can often be rather fluid.